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At least nine people were killed in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh on Monday while thousands were detained by the police and hundreds were left injured as the state and central governments struggled to control the massive protests that erupted across the north, west and east India over the Supreme Court’s alleged dilution of the SC/ST Act. While six were killed in cross-firing in Madhya Pradesh alone, two in Uttar Pradesh and one Rajasthan. Curfew was imposed in several places and over 400 people were arrested in Uttar Pradesh alone.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's marriage to Nelson Mandela and her anti-apartheid activism ensured many South Africans saw her as "the mother of the nation", but her past was littered with dark controversies. South Africa’s ‘flawed heroine’ has died, she was 81.

While parts of Bihar continue to seethe after the communal tensions that ensued in the town of Silaoo on March 28 during the pulling of the Ram Navami rath, reports suggest that the violence ensued after some members of the procession started hurling abuses at Pakistan upon entering a Muslim dominated part of the town. The town was located 20 kms from Bihar Sharif. According to local shopkeepers, who are keeping their shutters pulled fearing further tensions, the sale of swords, sticks, and other traditional Indian weapons rose before Ram Navami.

With three days to go for the end of the second leg of the budget session, the Parliament is seemingly heading toward an unproductive run. The SC/ST verdict and ensuing Dalit agitations, communal violence in Bihar, and the CBSE paper leaks are expected to be the key agendas of the Opposition’s onslaught on the Modi government.

Calling the BJP an ‘expert in caste politics’, Bahujan Samajwadi Party chief Mayawati has attacked the Modi government on Monday, claiming it is conspiring to deprive Dalits of promotions in jobs by privatization of government departments.

In the lead up to the Karnataka elections, it is CM Siddaramaiah calling the shots for the Congress party in the state with a strategy to attack or rebut. In a bid to keep his seat as CM, the Congress leader has turned to wooing regional voters, something the heavily centralized Bharatiya Janata Party is incompetent at. The Congress government’s decision to grant minority religion status to Lingayats may also prove to be a difficult hurdle for the BJP to cross in Karnataka.

Anger was palpable on the streets of Kashmir a day after the ‘bloody Sunday’ in which 20 people, including 13 militants, four civilians and three armed forces men, were killed in different encounters in the southern part of the state. Sunday’s three encounters was the first time in recent years that operations have been launched on such a huge scale against local militants in south Kashmir.

Despite new ‘hi-tech, leak proof system’ for delivering board examination papers, the CBSE examination failed to start on time as the board could not send encrypted question papers in time to schools on Monday.

VK Singh, the Minister of State for External Affairs, has said that all 39 Indians who were killed in Mosul went to Iraq illegally. The minister who was addressing the media lost his cool when asked if the kin of the deceased will be given jobs. “This is not a game of football…we will review,” he said.

In what appears to be Punjab’s answer to Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, Prabhakar’s Wax Museum in Ludhiana has Twitterati confused and tickled. Is it Michael Jackson or Mangal Pandey? See for yourself.

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The JDS is organising a mammoth public meeting in Gowda's family fiefdom Hassan this evening. The notable absentee would be his main partner in this election BSP supremo Mayawati. The party is mobilising at least 3-4 lakh people to this big event in response to Congress president Rahul Gandhi's last week public meeting in Hassan. Mayawati's absence has already led to a lot of speculation in political circles in Karnataka. Some political observers feel that Mayawati has gone quiet over Karnataka after the SP-BSP victory in Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats in her home state UP. Is this a roadblock to the Gowda-Mayawti alliance?

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Dalit agitations were reported from Punjab, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat and other parts of India. But why are India’s Dalits so angry? Here’s an explainer.

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Hours after 11 members of a family, including two minor boys, were found dead at their home in north Delhi's Burari, the discovery of a handwritten note has deepened the mystery. Police suspect the family followed some religious practice to "attain salvation". Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi has been threatened on Twitter with the rap ...…

In case you missed it Grisly drama: Eleven members of a family, including seven women and two children under the age of 15, were found dead under mysterious circumstances in a house in north Delhi’s Burari area on Sunday morning. Initially being deemed as suicide, investigators later confirmed that it may have been murder. According to authorit ...…

In case you missed it Bukhari murder expose: Jammu and Kashmir police claimed in a press conference that the murder of veteran journalist Shujaat Bukhari was plotted in Pakistan by terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba. J&K police also revealed names of the four LeT operatives. Freak crash: Five people were killed after a chartered aircraft crashed near ...…

In case you missed it Khunti lockdown: A little known tribal district, 30km away from the Jharkhand’s capital Ranchi, has become a flashpoint between the state's tribals and its police. Thousands of policemen and tribals have been locked in a standoff in Ghagra village inKhunti district since Tuesday night. The death of a tribal in a stampede-l ...…

In case you missed it Video wars: Just hours after Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy assured that all is well in the Congress-JDS alliance, a video showing his predecessorSiddaramaiah expressing doubts about the longevity of the coalition government surfaced on Tuesday. This comes two days after a video clip purportedly showing Siddaramia ...…

In case you missed it ‘Guys please be on hight alert…three kids were kidnapped’. The fatal messages were both in text and audio, and in different languages. 22 ‘outsiders’ were lynched by mobs on the mere suspicion of being the non-existent ‘child lifters’ following this fake WhatsApp message. WhatsApp has unfortunately become a fertile breedin ...…

In case you missed it LeT encounter: Two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, including the terror outfit's divisional commander Shakoor Ahmad Dar, were killed in an encounter with security forces, while another surrendered, in Kulgam district of south Kashmir on Sunday. Dar was one of the 21 militants on the hit list of the security forces that has been ...…

In case you missed it Weighing in: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said that a split within the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) was possible and he would not be surprised if some MLAs of the party decide to explore the option of joining the BJP. In an exclusive interview to News18’s Pallavi Ghosh, Abdullah said that it is p ...…

In case you missed it Break-up explained: BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir in-charge Ram Madhav on Wednesday blamed the break-up of the party’s alliance with the People’s Democratic Party on the “soft approach” of the Mehbooba Mufti government over violence in the Valley. In an interview to CNN-News18 hours after the imposition of Governor’s Rule in Jam ...…

In case you missed it Arvind Kejriwal seemed to have softened his stand on Sunday night in the ongoing standoff with Lieutenant General (L-G) Anil Baijal and the IAS Association. As several IAS officers came together to level counter allegations against the Delhi government, saying they are afraid of a lack of security, Kejriwal assured the bur ...…

In case you missed it It’s a tragic day. On Thursday evening, veteran journalist and Rising Kashmir editor Shujaat Bukhari was shot dead outside the newspaper's office in the heart of Srinagar by bike-borne gunmen. Two personal security officers assigned to him by Jammu and Kashmir police were also killed whereas a civilian was injured in the a ...…

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In case you missed it An unprecedented situation is unfurling in the national capital as Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is taking his protest against L-G Anil Baijal at the latter’s residence into the second night straight. Kejriwal confirmed his intentions in a tweet saying “our second night at L-G House”. Kejriwal, along with his deputy ...…

In case you missed it The photo-op at HD Kumaraswamy’s swearing in ceremony in Bengaluru was just the beginning of the bonhomie among the titans of India’s opposition parties. It has now translated into an actual battle plan. Sources told News18.com, that out of the 543 Lok Sabha seats that will be up for grabs in 2019, the opposition parties h ...…

In case you missed it Modi ‘assassination’ plot: NCP chief Sharad Pawar has joined the larger opposition narrative that the apparent assassination plot against Prime Minister Narendra Modi was devised to garner sympathy for him. “They say there was a threatening letter. I spoke to a retired police officer, who had worked for CID. He said there ...…

In case you missed it Political lessons: Nationalism, patriotism, tolerance and secularism formed the crux of former President Pranab Mukherjee’s address at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur on Thursday as the veteran Congress leader impressed upon the right wing organisation’s cadre the need to maintain communal harmony and pluralism. ‘Sangh is S ...…

In case you missed it Imran Exposed: Cricketer turned politician Imran Khan’s former wife Reham Khan has written an allegedly explosive autobiography in which she has accused Khan, of sexual harassment and nepotism within his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf. A manuscript of the book was allegedly leaked barely two months ahead of the Pakistan ...…

In case you missed it World Environment Day 2018: Even as India hosted this year’s World Environment Day on Tuesday and pledged to fight plastic pollution, the country is still beset with microbeads, one of the most insidious forms of the polluting compound to ever exist. Though the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) banned the use of microbeads ...…

In case you missed it Three CRPF personnel were injured when local protesters pelted stones at their camp in Mawlai, even as clashes continued for the fifth day in Shillong. After curfew was relaxed for eight hours on Sunday, fresh bouts of violence broke out in the night, prompting police to use tear gas shells to quell a mob. Fifteen companie ...…

In case you missed it An uneasy calm prevailed over Shillong on the fourth day since violent clashes broke out in the capital city of Meghalaya on Thursday. While the curfew has been relaxed, a palpable tension still remained on Sunday. The violence erupted after an altercation between some women and a driver of a Shillong Public Transport Serv ...…

In case you missed it By Election Results 2018: The bypolls result highlights the drastic change in poll math wrought by opposition unity.The lesson for BJP is now clear: In all states barring those where it is in a direct confrontation with the Congress, it cannot do without friends. Relying solely on the power of Brand Modi could also be a mi ...…

In case you missed it As the cycle of violence that had started with the rural polls in West Bengal continued, the body of a BJP youth worker was found hanging from a tree in in Purulia’s Balarampur town on Tuesday night. Written on the 18-year-old victim’s t-shirt was a chilling message in Bengali, “This is for doing BJP politics from age 18. ...…

In case you missed it The Tamil Nadu government ordered to seal Vedanta group's copper plant in Thoothukudi, or Tuticorin, and close it down "permanently" following last week's violent protests during which 13 people were killed in police firing. FIRs have also been lodged by Tamil Nadu Police against tehsildars Shekar and Kannan, who allegedly ...…

In case you missed it Polling booths have opened for voting in by-elections to four Lok Sabha seats, including the politically-crucial Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, and 10 Assembly constituencies across 10 states. Besides Kairana in western Uttar Pradesh, by-election will be held in Bhandara-Gondiya and Palghar parliamentary constituencies in Mahar ...…

In case you missed it Police firing led to the death of another person in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin, taking the death toll up to 13 as violence continued for the third day. Chief Minister Palaniswami defended the police action against accusations of pre-planned violence against protesters. He took to Twitter, saying "When someone hits you, you nat ...…

In case you missed it At least one more person was killed and five more were injured in fresh police firing in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin town on Wednesday, taking the death toll since Tuesday’s violent anti-Sterlite protests to 12. Enraged over Tuesday's allegedly indiscriminate police firing that led to 11 deaths, protesters took to streets and s ...…

In case you missed it Protests against Vedanta's Sterlite copper unit in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi took a violent turn on Tuesday with at least 11 people being killed in alleged police firing. Thirty others were left injured as a mob of 20,000 people went on a rampage in the city, demanding the copper unit be shut down because it has been pollut ...…

In case you missed it In a dramatic end to the 2018 Karnataka Election results, HD Kumaraswamy of the Janata Dal (Secular) will be sworn-in as the CM of Karnataka after BS Yeddyurappa resigned as Chief Minister on Saturday, just two days after his swearing-in and barely hours before the Yeddyurappa government’s trust vote on the Karnataka Assem ...…

In case you missed it Amid controversy, the Karnataka Governor on Wednesday invited the Bharatiya Janata Party to form government first in Karnataka, ahead of the other claimant - the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) combine. BS Yeddyurappa, who has been given 15 days time to prove his party's majority in a floor test, was scheduled to be sworn in ...…

In case you missed it It’s finally here. The day we will find out who is forming the government in the 224-member Assembly in Karnataka. Almost all opinion polls have predicted the possibility of Karnataka going towards a fractured mandate and throwing up a hung assembly. Hours before the results, the ruling Congress floated the theory of a Dal ...…

In case you missed it At least 41 persons were killed on Sunday when several storms struck across North Indian states. A storm that struck the Delhi-NCR region resulted in two deaths, 18 injuries, severe traffic disruptions with 70 flights being diverted and more than two dozen delayed flights while Metro services on three different lines were ...…

In case you missed it An election campaign that has been dubbed as never seen before has finally come to an end. The Congress party, defending its full five-year term under Siddaramaiah, termed the Modi-led BJP campaign as vicious, cheap, divisive, communal and full of hype. For the first time in Karnataka elections, primacy of Kannada, separat ...…

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In case you missed it Embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya, who is undergoing an extradition trial in a UK court over fraud and money laundering charges by Indian authorities, lost a lawsuit filed by the Indian banks in the UK High Court. Judge Andrew Henshaw refused to overturn a worldwide order freezing Mallya's assets and upheld an Indian co ...…

In case you missed it A high-velocity dust storm hit the national capital on Monday night. The storm, with a wind speed of 70 kilometres per hours, hit Delhi around 11.20 PM. Gurugram, Ghaziabad and Chandigarh also experienced strong winds accompanied by rain, with trees swaying violently in the dark. Two people were also injured in a storm in ...…

In case you missed it Out of the 2,560 candidates in the Karnataka elections fray, 391 have self-declared criminal cases against them while 254 of them have “serious criminal cases” in their names, shows a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). The ADR report says, among all major parties contesting the elections, BJP has the m ...…

In case you missed it At least 109 people have been killed since Wednesday evening in parts of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh after a high-intensity dust-storm damaged buildings and brought down trees and electric poles. Meanwhile, another dust storm may hit parts of UP and Rajasthan in the next 48 hours due to cyclonic circulation formation in th ...…

In case you missed it Nearly seven years after veteran crime journalist Jyotirmoy Dey was gunned down in suburban Mumbai, a Mumbai court on Wednesday convicted don Chhota Rajan and eight others in the sensational case and sentenced them to life imprisonment. The special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court, however, acquitte ...…

In case you missed it Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed three rallies in a day as he launched his campaign blitzkrieg for the Karnataka election. He attacked Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for disrespecting ‘Vande Mataram’ accused the Siddaramaiah government of initiating "ease of doing murders" and reached out to JD(S) supremo Deve Gowda by ...…

In case you missed it One of the most recognised local faces of Kashmiri militancy – Hizbul Mujahideen’s Sameer Bhat alias Sameer Tiger – was killed along with another Hizbul militant – Aaquib Khan - in an encounter on Monday. One civilian teenager – Shahid – was also killed during the encounter and two army personnel, including a major, were i ...…

In case you missed it Addressing the Jan Akrosh rally in Delhi on Sunday, Congress president Rahul Gandhi accused the Narendra Modi government of trying to clamp down on dissentand advised the PM to learn from his party. Taking a dig at the party’s alleged intolerance, Gandhi said that though senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid had recently ...…

In case you missed it In a tragic accident, the lives of at least 13 children were lost and seven others injured after a speeding train crashed into a school van on Thursday morning at an unmanned crossing in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar, around 50 km from Gorakhpur. CM Adityanath blamed the accident on the irresponsibility of the driver. Accordi ...…

In case you missed it Self-styled godman Asaram was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Jodhpur court for raping a teenage girl in his ashram five years ago. Asaram broke down on hearing the verdict, which was read out by Special judge Madhusudan Sharma in the Jodhpur Central Jail, where the 77-year-old has been kept for over four years. In a b ...…

In case you missed it Rajya Sabha chairman Venkaiah Naidu on Monday rejected the impeachment motion against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra by seven opposition parties, calling it an ‘untenable’ move. The decision was followed by deep political divide among lawyers and politicians, with some calling the decision to dismiss the impeachment mo ...…

In case you missed it Raping a child under the age of 12 is punishable by death now in India. Following the massive outrage over the gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua, the Union Cabinet on Saturday approved the promulgation of an ordinance to allow courts to award death penalty to those convicted of raping children up to ...…

In case you missed it The Supreme Court has said that a "veiled attempt" was made to launch a "frontal attack" on the independence of judiciary through the pleas seeking probe into the death of special CBI judge B H Loya. Frivolous petitions instituted at the behest of business or political rivals to settle scores behind the "facade" of a publi ...…

In case you missed it Addressing a massive gathering of Indian diaspora in London, Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke his silence on the numerous incidences of rape in India, saying that rape should not be ‘politicised’. He also spoke about terrorism, the surgical strikes on Pakistan, poverty, Bhagwan Basaveshwara and the ‘great expectations’ t ...…

In case you missed it As reports of non-availability of cash at ATMs across the country kept pouring in throughout the day, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in a statement on Tuesday clarified that there is no shortage of currency. The central bank noted logistical issues and non-replenishment of ATMs as the reason behind the cash crunch. However, f ...…

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